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compound:quant: verb-quantifier compound

Among the many verbal particles in Cantonese are affixal quantifiers 埋 / maai4 (~“also”) and 晒 / saai3 (~“all”) (Lee, 2012; we exclude 開 / hoi1 for syntactic distributional reasons); they may scope over any argument in the clause or even the predicate. They attach after verbs (1) and can be intervened by the potential 得 / dak1 or the negative potential 唔 / m4 (2), but differ from verb-verb compounds (compound:vv) in that they can co-occur with them, in which case they are attached after the verb-verb compounds (3).

There is a limited case where a quantifier can co-occur with an aspect marker, between the quantifier 晒 / saai3 and the experiential aspect marker 過 / guo3.

Additionally, 埋 / maai4 and 晒 / saai3 can also co-occur, in that order.

References

Lee, Peppina Po-lun. 2012. Cantonese Particles and Affixal Quantification (Volume 87 of Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory). Springer.


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